And, as suspected, there were indeed mystical incantations, hidden knowledge and initiations to be endured and no end of cursing sessions until I chanced on a post on a forum. I decided to make one last push to reach the objective. To be blunt, after two days, I was approaching a point where I was ready to ditch ASCOM. No matter what I tried, I was being denied the prize despite having done everything right. “ Connect Error: Port not available” (See image to the left). No matter what I did, when I attempted to connect EQMOD to the mount, all that EQMOD HEQ5/6 reported was the following error:
Simplicity and POE (plain old English) get the job done. So, this article aims to help and explains things in plain English for what worked for me. And the documentation that did exist is confusing at best. It is easy to blame software for something that isn’t working right and to be honest, what I saw in terms of the documentation for ASCOM-related packages was a Hodge-podge of frustrated posts by real people trying to get their equipment to work. Despite all my experience, I was completely mystified by what I was experiencing trying to get this hardware and software to communicate on a common USB connection. To give you an idea of my software experience, I wrote a complete document management system that ran multiple aerospace development programs by myself and worked for 32 years in IT as a corporate webmaster. In reality, the problems were not ASCOM but a complete lack of any coherent recipe to help a newbie like me get the mount running as intended. Ready to chuck the entire mess aside and go straight to USB without ASCOM. Results of my attempts: Two days of pure frustration.
Shouldn’t be a big deal, but from the pages I’ve seen out there and posts on forums, it CAN BE a huge issue for many.
Connecting eqmod to skychart serial#
The Use Case is as follows: Connect serial cable to hand controller to connect to the PC. I hope this procedure helps you get your mount working! Likely you’ve reached the end of your tether, trying to get your mount to work with ASCOM and EQMOD HE5/6.
Connecting eqmod to skychart pro#
If you are getting this error when connecting your EQ6-R Pro to EQMOD: “ Connect Error: Port not available“, then this article is for you.
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